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Chapter 251 Xue Yi's Promotion
When I came to Zhuangzi, I saw that all the seeds sown in the greenhouse had sprouted, which was so beautiful in Xue Hong's heart.He instructed the seedlings to grow in a warm enough environment, and secretly replaced the water tanks in each greenhouse with full spiritual spring water, and then went back with confidence.

Unexpectedly, on the way home, Xue Hong saw the frame of the eunuch who had just left in the palace to issue the decree.It turned out that Xue Yi had been promoted.

Because of the construction of the Old Summer Palace in the palace, all the building materials that Xue Yi handed over to the Ministry of Industry were of the highest quality. Kangxi said that he had made meritorious contributions to the donations, and promoted him to be the head of the Ministry of Industry.

Xue Hong came back late, and only saw the imperial edict of appointment and two sets of official uniforms.Looking at the egret patch and giant clam crown worn by the sixth-rank officials, Xue Yi felt his heart surge.

When Xue Hong entered the door, he only knew what to say, and he saluted Qian Qian, and said in his mouth: "My child, please greet the master in charge, and wish the master in charge a smooth career."

Xue Yi laughed so hard that he couldn't see his teeth, he hurriedly helped his youngest son up, Xue Hong said again: "Father is so capable, he can be promoted to an official in a few years after being the governor of the general administration, and wearing Hualing is just around the corner. Why bother asking my son to work hard when it can be done?"

Xue Yi was angry and funny: "You monkey, so you are waiting for me here! You and I both know that the head of the Ministry of Industry is piled up with silver money. If it weren't for us to overfulfill the quota several times in a row Internal money, this time the palace has brought in a lot of building materials, how can the people above remember us? However, this time it seems that the fourth elder brother also helped, so it can be seen that the passive situation at the beginning was not all a bad thing."

Xue Yi always remembered that Zhang Tingyu used the matter of Thousand Day Drunk to force Xue's family to board the fourth elder brother's boat, but now that he had benefited from the fourth elder brother, Xue Yi also felt that he didn't hate Zhang Tingyu so much, and it was only a blessing in disguise.

But Xue Hong was always a little dissatisfied with Xue Yi's official position. Why was it the Ministry of Industry?If he remembered correctly, wasn't his good uncle Jia Zheng a member of the Ministry of Industry?From now on, wouldn't my father have to work with Jia Zheng, a man who is corrupt and ignorant of the world?
"I don't know which yamen my father is the head of the Ministry of Industry. Is he with my uncle?"

Xue Yi shook his head: "No way. Your uncle and I belong to the second division of the fourth department of the Ministry of Industry. He is in charge of manufacturing, sending and receiving various official utensils, and the Yu Heng Qing official department in charge of weights and measures and casting money. I am in charge of the palace and government offices. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and Cleaning up, not to mention not working together on weekdays, even meeting occasionally is just a greeting, not business matters."

No one else knew how incompetent Jia Zheng was, but Xue Yi knew it.Apart from reading a few sour books, this person doesn't know anything about the world. Fortunately, he doesn't belong to the same yamen, otherwise he didn't act well or offended someone. No matter it's not good, it will be really troublesome at that time.

But at this point, Xue Hong was worried about another thing: "Since my father has been promoted, will the name of our royal merchant be taken back?"

Xue Yi said with a smile: "No. It's just that my father's official position is as its name suggests, and it is indeed a real title of master. In the future, I will no longer be able to go out to do business with an internal money brand. However, my father intends to submit a booklet for you. My elder brother took my position and continued to be an imperial merchant. However, he is still young, so I don't know if he can take it."

Xue Hong smiled and said: "Father, just be your official with peace of mind, and leave the business of the caravan to the elder brother. Didn't you say that the elder brother who followed you all over the world has seen the world, and he has some success in his heart." Besides, with Manager Ping and Master Bai following, what could happen? The eldest brother is twelve years old, so he is not too young, and he will be married again in a few years, and he will be able to be the head of the family. No matter how young the young eagle is , you must learn to fly!"

Xue Yi thought about it, and that was exactly the reason. Anyway, the caravan would be run by Xue Pan in the future. Wouldn't it be all right to give early or late?The big deal is to earn a little less, what can I do?

Xue Yi smiled and said, "You're right. I'll fix the book immediately and let your brother come back. Let's have a good reunion year."

Xue Hong was also very happy. I haven't seen Xue Pan for a long time, and I don't know what he looks like now.

After Xue Pan received the letter from home, he planned to rush back, but because of Hongguozi's family members, he was hindered after all, and he didn't come back so soon.So I will talk about Xue Pan's affairs later, and let's talk about the one who arrived at Xue's residence one step ahead of Xue Pan, but it was another batch of goods.

The original year's goods had already been delivered to Xue Pan once, but after receiving the letter from home, he ordered some more, and because he was afraid of missing the deadline, he sent someone back first.

Everything else was limited, only Xue Pan thoughtfully sent a lot of materials this time.There are all kinds of cloud satin, palace satin, mansion yarn, cocoon silk, plain satin, cotton cloth, and six bolts of Shu brocade, probably sent to make clothes for Xue Wang and Baochai.

But at the end of the year, all the mansions were busy celebrating the New Year, and the Xue Mansion did not hold a big banquet for Xue Yi's promotion. One was that the mansions were busy at the end of the year, and the other was that the Xue family didn't want to publicize it.However, Xue Wang's family got such a good thing as the Shu brocade, and whenever there was a happy event in the family, they added the Shu brocade to the annual gift and gave it to several families who were close to Xue's family to express their congratulations.

Only Baochai saw that Xue Wang was sending out New Year's gifts everywhere, and she packed up some of her own things to give to all the sisters.Coincidentally, on this day, there was a minor illness in the Spring Festival, and the sisters of the family had not seen each other for a few days, so they gathered in Rongguo Mansion on the grounds of visiting sickness. Baochai also packed all the things carefully, so as to save him from running errands everywhere to give gifts.

When we arrived at the main house of Rongguo Mansion, all the sisters were gathered in the yard of Yingchun. It was like a "winter boudoir gathering", which made Yingchun feel embarrassed: "I hurt something after eating and had diarrhea for two days." , Now that everything is fine, why do you have to work so hard that everyone comes?"

Tan Chun laughed and said, "How can I thank you, Second Sister? If it weren't for your little ailment, these two are so busy that it would be difficult to even see each other."

As Tanchun spoke, he held Daiyu with one hand and Baochai with the other, complaining that the two hadn't seen each other for a long time.

But everyone knows that Daiyu has started to learn about housekeeping because of Jia Min's poor health, so she is a bit busy on weekdays. Baochai, not to mention, she has been learning housekeeping since she was learning to read. Every New Year's Eve also spends more time at home.

In previous years, apart from Wu Linzhu and Li Wan, the only daughters-in-law in Rongguo Mansion who learned how to be housekeepers, Yuan Chun was the only one. Now that she is married, she is the housekeeper of Mrs. Wang again this year. Yingchun wants to learn, but she is too embarrassed to ask. Ling Xuan saw it, and just silently asked her to come to the room, and asked Wu Linzhu to teach her to read the account book, which also meant training her. For this, Yingchun was very grateful, and she became more filial to Zhang Lingxuan on weekdays.

(End of this chapter)